[Foundation-l] Day 4 Fund Drive Report

Tue Feb 22 09:04:25 UTC 2005

There was a mistake in the grand total table I sent before. Here is the correct
table (an email with all the correct tables will be resent shortly).

Grand totals so far (only counting complete days)			

PayPal		USD equiv	%GrandTotal
AUD	1157.1	     $914.69	  2.62%
CAD 	1719.92	   $1,393.65	  3.99%
EUR 	9469.28	  $12,378.24	 35.42%
GBP 	1654.34	   $3,139.61	  8.98%
JPY	90723	     $859.96	  2.46%
USD	15833.85  $15,833.85	45.31%
PayPal total:	  $34,520.00	

Moneybookers:			
		 $426.69	 1.22%

GRAND TOTAL	$34,946.69	100.00%

% toward goal 		46.60%	

--- Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Day 4 (Monday 21 February eastern US timezone since PayPal data are not
> available in UTC) we made $6,586.15 (USD equivalent) through PayPal (no
> updates
> available for other sources at this time). This is a decrease of 16.44% from
> Day 3 but still does represent 18.34% of total funds collected so far
> ($35,904.88 ; only counting full days) and 8.78% of our goal ($75,000). 
> 
> Remarkably, the rate of donations were not too adversely affected by the
> downtime today. Since the donation forms were not available during a large
> part
> of the downtime, I can only guess that people remembered our PayPal account
> name. 
> 
> Donations did significantly increase soon after a Slashdot story about the
> downtime was released (9:28PM, EST), forcing us to move the backup donation
> page once the Slashdot Effect brought down the website hosting it 
> (http://wikisearch.org ; Sorry about that Angela). 
> 
> Day  4			Day  3 comparison	
> Breakdown:				
> PayPal		USD equiv	USD equiv	%change
> AUD	32	   $25.30         $330.90        -92.36%
> CAD 	785	  $636.09         $238.93        166.23%
> EUR 	1489.63	$1,947.24	$2,755.66  	 -29.34%
> GBP 	332.06	  $630.18         $696.89         -9.57%
> JPY	8501	   $80.58         $198.96         59.50%
> USD	3266.76	$3,266.76	$3,596.33	  -9.16%
> PayPal total:   $6,586.15	$7,817.66	 -15.75%
> 				
> MoneyBookers				
> 		                   $64.00	-100.00%
> 				
> 	TOTAL	$6,586.15	$7,881.66	-16.44%
> 
> Grand totals so far (only counting complete days)			
> 			
> PayPal		USD equiv	%GrandTotal
> AUD	1150.4	     $909.39	 2.53%
> CAD 	1571.01	   $1,272.99	 3.55%
> EUR 	9926.89	  $12,976.44	36.14%
> GBP 	1952.46	   $3,705.39	10.32%
> JPY	82302.58     $780.15	 2.17%
> USD	15833.85  $15,833.85	44.10%
> PayPal total:	  $35,478.19	
> 			
> Moneybookers:			
> 		     $426.69     1.19%
> 			
> GRAND TOTAL	  $35,904.88	100.00%
> 			
> % toward goal 	      47.87%	
> 
> For the most recent grand total and other details visit
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1 
> (once everything is back up)
> 
> Some selected comments from Day 4:
> See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1/Day_4 in about a
> day (hopefully I'll be able to post by then)
> 
> "I love this site. Keep up the awesome work!" by Anonymous
> 
> "I use Wiki - I have to pay for it !" by Immo Wetzel
> 
> "You have aided me countless times in my academic pursuits in math, science,
> and the humanities. I can't thank you guys enough." by Laura Napolitano
> 
> "Wiki is the future!" by Christoph Burschka
> 
> "Wikipedia is in my opinion one of the most noble collective human endeavours
> underway in the world today. Thank you so much for contributing to society
> with
> your wonderful website. I love it and abide" by Matthew Barba
> 
> "Wikimedia Rocks!" by Jasmeet Singh
> 
> "I have always had a thirst for knowledge, and this project does more than
> quench it. I am happy to donate." by Matthew Gluesenkamp
> 
> "Cheaper than cable" by Anonymous
> 
> Some of my favorites:
> 
> "Spread your Squids around the world. And use cached pages for logged in
> users
> as well. Fix those and I'll be happy as a [[clam]]. Good job so far!!!" by
> Rami
> Lehti
> 
> "A small price to pay for a project like this. But get a move on with all
> those
> ambitious plans for paper versions. Most of the world doesn't have
> computers."
> by Anonymous
> 
> "The Wikimedia Foundations is an acheivement of great proportions spreading
> the
> one firm truth that information is truly free. Thank you." by Siddharth
> Bhansali
> 
> "Help preserve the sum total of human knowledge for less than the price of
> two
> Caramel Frappuccinos. Wikipedia is not only fat-free and carbohydrate-free,
> it
> will never go straight to your hips!" by Jonet Greene
> 
> "Give Wiki a boost!!" by Kiminori Noma
> 
> 
> Daniel Mayer,
> Wikimedia CFO
> 
> 
> 
> 		
> __________________________________ 
> Do you Yahoo!? 
> Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. 
> http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo 
> _______________________________________________
> foundation-l mailing list
> foundation-l at wikimedia.org
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
> 

__________________________________ 
Do you Yahoo!? 
The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! 
http://my.yahoo.com 